Uncommon sense about organizations : cases, studies, and field observations

Included Index.

1. All in the factory: a participant observation --
2. The colors of collars: occupational differences in work goals --
3. Humanization of work: a matter of values --
4. The stress/satisfaction balance of occupations --
5. Cast study: IBM typewriter assembly --
6. Case study: work structuring at Philips --
7. Alienation at the top --
8. People and techniques in budgeting --
9. The poverty of management control philosophy --
10. Case study: Communaute de Travail Boimondau --
11. Case study: Confrontation in the cathedral --
12. Case study: Angola coffee --
13. Looking at the boss and looking at ourserves --
14. Perceptions of others after a T-group --
15. Predicting managers' career success --
16. Business managers and business school faculty: a comparison of value systems --
17. Frustrations of personnel managers.

"Hofstede's lifetime of research into organizational behavior has yielded a considerable number of studies using a variety of methodologies. Uncommon Sense About Organizations assembles 17 of the author's superlative articles and case studies, grouping them within three main themes: the impact of jobs on people, power and control in organizations, and studies in training sessions. Hofstede further divides and examines these subjects in relation to their sizes, categorizing studies of the individual or small group as belonging to organizational psychology, for example, while attributing the study of a single, larger, and more complex organization to the discipline of organizational anthropology. The combination of the author's careful and informed scrutiny and his thoughtful juxtaposition of these topics reveals organizational realities that might not otherwise be discerned." "Encompassing such wide-ranging disciplines as sociology, psychology, and anthropology, Uncommon Sense About Organizations is a tour de force of behavioral science research."--Jacket.